RECENT NEWS

The UK health and care system must accelerate the use of digital technology seen over the course of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a report by thinktank Public Policy Projects (PPP).

Labour has warned the government has weeks to put a winter care home plan in place or risk a repeat of past mistakes in tackling the Covid-19 pandemic.

Care home operator Allegra Care and real estate fund manager Moorfield Group have teamed up to create a £125m portfolio of nursing and dementia care homes.

The UK government is reportedly drawing up alternative plans for adult social care funding reform after cooling on ideas for a Dilnot-style cap system.

Bracknell Forest Council has held a groundbreaking ceremony to mark construction kicking off for the £9.2m Heathlands care home in Berkshire.

Care homes in England have been warned by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) of a rise in Covid-19 infections within the sector.

Hallmark Care Homes has entered the assisted living market with the launch of the Santhem Residences luxury retirement village brand.

HC-One, the UK’s largest care home operator, is facing the threat of possible legal action over the deaths of residents from Covid-19.

Staff at a supported living community are trialling an innovative temperature indicator that has helped them to monitor carers and residents.

Torsion Care has lost an appeal against refusal of its plans to build a 66-bed care home in Lightcliffe in West Yorkshire.

Montpelier Estates has agreed to buy the site of a former day centre in West Sussex from Chichester District Council with a view to building a new care home.

Legal & General’s later living business Inspired Villages has kicked off construction of the £60m Elderswell retirement village in Bedfordshire.

Morar Living will next month deploy smart technology to help reduce the spread of viruses including Covid-19 at its Castlehill care home in Inverness.

Glasgow real estate developer Simply UK has secured €40m from a European investor to develop its Morar Living care home and retirement living division.

Impact Healthcare REIT has acquired the 62-bed St Peters House care home in Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk for £7.4m.

Annual adult social care spending in England is £600m lower than a decade ago, according to a report by the Trades Union Congress (TUC).

Avery Healthcare has won the right to develop a 63-bed care home on the outskirts of Derby following approval from Derbyshire City Council.

MPs will question Health and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock on the government’s plans for a long-term solution on social care reform on Tuesday.

More than 400 UK care home residents were dying with Covid-19 every day during the peak of the pandemic, according to analysis by the PA news agency.

NHS Highland has acquired a care home on Skye where ten residents died of Covid-19 from provider HC-One to secure resident safety.